A selection of mainly 20th century books in Arabic: literature, philosophy, culture, politics, history, etc.
Kuwait: (1981). Paperback. 12mo, wraps, very good. 50 pp. In Arabic. The author was a member of the Central Committee of the PLO and gave this lecture, here reprinted, at the University of Qatar on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the start of the Palestinian Revolution.
Kuwait: (1981). Paperback. 12mo, wraps, very good. 47 pp. In Arabic. The author was a member of the Central Committee of the PLO.
Cairo: Maktabat al-Anjil al-Mis r yah, 1955. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good with some wear and tanning. 202 pp, text in Arabic. Articles on political philosophy and social conditions in Egypt. Progressive author: he argued for the separation of religion from state, as well as for a democratic socialism.....
Cairo: Muh ammad al-Am n, (1975). Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good to very good, light wear. 464 pp. Text in Arabic. Born Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi (1898-1975), she was a very popular actress, singer and songwriter in Egypt, given the honorific "The Star of the East," and active from the 1920s.....
Liege: 1947. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good to very good, small piece of tape on verso of front cover and first page, text otherwise clean. In facing French and Persian.
Cairo: Dar Al-Nadim, 1957. Paperback. Wraps, very good, light wear, soil and tanning. A Marxist interpretation of state power. Translated into Arabic.
Cairo: 1960s. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and tanning. Part of a series of world theatre classics in Arabic editions.
NP: NP, Ca. 1955. Paperback. 9.5 x 6.75 inches, wraps, very good, covers somewhat tanned, light wear along spine. 94 pp. Reprints agreements, etc., from the mid-1940s (the Arab League was founded in 1945) to 1954. In English. OCLC/Worldcat locates 11 holdings.
Beirut: Dar Al-Adab, 1962. First printing. Paperback. Pictorial wraps, very good, light soil and wear to covers, tanning to pages. The play was written in 1925.
Cairo: Al-Diya, Ca. 1960. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, pictorial wraps, good with some wear and dustiness, pages quite tanned. 183 pp, illustrated with drawings. Existentialist and other musings, some almost fiction. Author was a prolific writer as well as a medical doctor. RARE, OCLC/Worldcat locate only two copies of this.....
Beirut: Dar Munayman, 1957. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, good, general moderate wear and tanning. 157 pp. Text in Arabic. Early work by the American-Lebanese diplomat. Uncommon.
Dimashq / Damascus: Majma al-Lughah al- Arab yah bi-Dimashq, 1975. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, 23, 508 pp. Text in Arabic.
Cairo: 1960s. Paperback. Wraps, very good, light wear, tanning and soil. In Arabic. Part of a series of masterpieces of world theatre.
Cairo: Salafi, 1957. Paperback. Stapled wraps, 21 pp, very good, tanning and mellowing to covers and text, two holes punched near the spine. Rare translation of this French colonial document by Muhammad al-Makki al-Nasiri, a Moroccan nationalist politician and religious figure, founder of the Moroccan Unity Party.
Cairo: 1960s. Paperback. Wraps, very good, light wear, tanning and soil. In Arabic. Part of a series of masterpieces of world theatre.
Beirut: Dar Bayrut, 1956. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, decorated batik-like cloth with paper spine label, very good. Inscription on flyleaf, possibly authorial. 511 pp. Text clean and unmarked. In Arabic.
Damascus: Ministry of Culture, 1976. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear. 152 pp. Text in Arabic.
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United Arab Republic: 1961. Paperback. Wraps, very good. Text in Arabic.
Beirut: Maktabat al-Ma'arif, 1962. Paperback. Translated into Arabic by Jamil Said and Ahmad Zarwi. 8vo, wraps, good to very good, light wear, staining, tanning. Text nice and clean. 459 pp.
Dimashq / Damascus: Dar Dimashq, 1964. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil to covers. 276 pp. In Arabic.
Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1954. First printing. Paperback. Large 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and tanning. 14, 291 pp. Text in Arabic. OCLC-Worldcat locate only a few in institutions, although it was reprinted at least once in 1970. The author died in 1938.
![Item #H23628 Speech by the Prime Minister broadcast on Iraqi radio 12/16/1956 [Arabic]. Nuri...](/pictures/thumb/h23628.jpg?v=1654383830)
Baghdad: Directorate of Guidance and Public Broadcasting, (1956). Paperback. Stapled wraps, very good, light wear and soil. 32 pp. In Arabic. A discussion of the major differences the prime minister had with other Arab leaders and his disgust at developing Soviet interference in Iraqi affairs.
Cairo: J mi at al-Duwal al- Arab yah, Ma had al-Dir s t al- Arab yah al- liyah, 1957. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, general light wear and tanning. 171 pp. Text in Arabic. The author was an influential professor of Arabic Literature at Cairo University.
Damascus: Ministry of Culture, 1965. First printing. Paperback. In Arabic. Large 8vo, wraps, very good, light general soil, dustiness, tanning.
Cairo: Lajnat Nashr al-Mu allaf t al-Taym r yah, 1957. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, 80 pp, illustrated, very good, light wear and soil. Text in Arabic. Author was an Egyptian historian who became interested in the bawdy shadow play traditions of the Ottoman empire.